Monday, April 29, 2013

Expect More DeWine Press Conferences

Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine appears regularly on local TV news. He seems to have gotten obsessive about trying to get free p.r. with one press conference or another. He might actually appear on TV more than a Kardashian!

Mike DeWine has made some slip ups and they've been noted by Plunderbund:

Mike DeWine has also received criticism for his views on other issues---

> Abortion-Politifact took Mike DeWine's statement, checked it, and found it "..Mostly False":

...DeWine appeared Feb. 20 on MSNBC’s "The Last Word with Lawrence
O’Donnell" and was asked about Santorum’s assertion that amniocentesis, a
prenatal screening test, directly leads to an increase in the number of
abortions. Santorum had made the claim earlier that day on the campaign
trail in Ohio.

Would DeWine advise Santorum to stop talking about amniocentesis,
O’Donnell asked. DeWine responded he would not, adding that Santorum was
correct. "The fact is 90-percent of Down syndrome children were aborted in this country," DeWine responded...

As I've noted, Politifact called DeWine's statement as "..Mostly False".

Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine signed a letter this week to
Kathleen Sebelius, secretary of health and human services, urging that
an exemption to the coverage mandate extended to certain nonprofit
religious organizations be broadened to include private employers who
object to contraception for religious reasons.DeWine said last night that requiring business owners to include
prescriptions such as the morning-after pill, which critics say are
abortive, as an employee insurance benefit could be a "direct
contradiction" to the religious beliefs of some employers.

DeWine, a U.S. senator before his 2006 defeat, argued,
"They're being forced to provide insurance coverage that violates their
religious beliefs. They're being forced to provide insurance coverage
for a form of abortion. To me, it's a religious-freedom issue."

In Mike DeWine's world, the more powerful get to force their beliefs on others.